Politics for a New India

This book is a modest attempt to seek an identity for Bharatiya Ways of Study and move away
from the Western domination in social science. It attempts to negate the system of Euro-supremacist
control and expose the dependence and unrelenting academic imperialism. It cautions against blind
imitation without carefully testing against empirical realities of India to save the social sciences
in general, and political science in particular, from possible bias. That is why this book aims at
setting an alternative discourse in political science as against hegemonic discourse to diversify the
outlook amenable to the historical and cultural context of India.
Politics for a New India relies on objectivity and the analysis of world views drawn from our own
intellectual traditions, as well as the metaphysical, philosophical, and ethical assumptions at the
core of our political issues. It also takes into its inquiry all those problems which have not been
adequately paid attention so far but are legitimately needed in current political discourse. These
include the RSS ideology and practice; perspective of Dharma and Advaita; literary excursion;
integral humanism; Hindu philosophy and women rights; Kerala model of development; uniform
civil code, among others